You won't hear that from me! The Panthers, once circled on my calendar as a "win", pose quite a threat! Their defense scares the crap out of me and, even without the services of Stephen Davis (which, IMO, they won't have to worry about this week), they are quite a formidable team.

I'm hoping the Redskins can put two good back-to-back games together to give the Panthers a challenge. Unlike Seattle, I expect the Panthers to blitz hard and often. Hopefully, the Skins O-line will be up for that and Ramsey's new 3-step drops will expose the Panthers secondary.

Also, although I would normally expect the Panthers to "come down" a little after the Bucs game...I am sure Stephen Davis won't let that happen.

Hopefully, it'll be a good game....with the Redskins prevailing (of course)!

Fran Farren
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The Panthers Defense is vastly over-rated by the media. They have an extremely inept secondary that is easily exploited, and I expect Spurrier to take advantage of that early and often. One thing I think that will happen is that the Skins will have a hard time with the blitzes coming from the linebackers, Witherspoon in particular, and will be forced into mistakes.

Quite the opposite happens for us though, Delhomme generally plays better under pressure or being blitzed... it's when he's got time to think that scares us

SD has an ankle injury... don't think it was a high ankle sprain, but not sure.

My mouth won't be wide open, but I would be happy if things go well like I am hoping. I would be mildly surprised if they can do it again, but you know, sometimes it takes just a little bit of a turnaround for the team to get the pride back.... and as we know from the 0-5 start with Shoddy Heimer... that may be all we need. Sometimes momentum can come from the fact that you just didn't shoot yourself in the foot like you had been lately.

Rich in Roanoke
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